If GoDaddy Supports SOPA, We’re Taking Our 1000+ Domains Elsewhere

[beer]

And the anti-SOPA rallying of the tech world’s best continues.

Just minutes after Ycombinator’s Paul Graham disclosed that SOPA-friendly companies would be blacklisted from the YC Demo Day[article is posted below], Cheezburger (as in I Can Has Cheeseburger, FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, etc.) CEO Ben Huh has announced that they will be moving their array of over 1,000 domains away from GoDaddy unless the registrar recants their support of the act.

Will Huh’s threat be enough to make GoDaddy back down? Probably not: GoDaddy is a company with plenty of controversies under its belt, so they’re more than used to taking a bit of heat. With that said, it will raise awareness to the fact that taking your domains elsewhere (and thus your money) is a totally legitimate form of protest — in fact, Huh’s tweet just reminded me that I have (make that had) 2 domains sitting in GoDaddy’s yard. Thanks, Ben!

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Since some sites will cease to exist if SOPA is passed, I am hoping to see what Ben started here will go viral and sparkle similar protest by other tech companies. Go Ben! Go!

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[Alanon]

Good move. B)

[Tweety.Abd]

What's this SOPA all about? How could it affect certain websites? And what is for?

[beer]

What's this SOPA all about? How could it affect certain websites? And what is for?

"[...]Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, a bill which gives filmmakers and the federal government the ability to shutdown entire websites that they claim are involved in piracy -- without a trial or even a traditional hearing. And while the legislation is being pushed most aggressively by Hollywood movie studio and major record labels, the sweeping enforcement powers envisioned by the bill could be deployed by adult film auteurs, as well."

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SOPA's is intended to control user access to "copyrighted material" within the USA. But its provisions are so broad it is ridiculous. For example, If some random user spams a copyrighted link in the comments area, then the blog/website can be shutdown at the request of the copyright holders.

To my understanding, SOPA will employ DNS blocking from ISPs, but you will still be able to access a particiular site via its IP address. The next step will probably be blacklisting websites.

Many influential people, websites, and CEOs including those from facebook, google, wikipedia, and etc. have voiced against SOPA. There are also security concerns that the implementation of SOPA will break the security of the internet due to the way it will alter the access of sites across the web.

There are articles within filesharing news that covers this in much more details if you do a search on SOPA.

Spread the word. :cheers:

[beer]

Found this list of SOPA supporters posted by Gizmodo:

I am seeing news where people and companies are beginning to boycott SOPA.

SOPA bill prompts boycott of supporters

Law Firms Removing Their Name From SOPA Supporters' List; SOPA 'Support' Crumbling

[beer]

GoDaddy withdraws support for SOPA

By Rob Beschizza at 10:57 am Friday, Dec 23

GoDaddy just released a statement withdrawing its support for SOPA.

Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.

"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."

Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago. Jones has fought to express the concerns of the entire Internet community and to improve the bill by proposing changes to key defined terms, limitations on DNS filtering to ensure the integrity of the Internet, more significant consequences for frivolous claims, and specific provisions to protect free speech.

"As a company that is all about innovation, with our own technology and in support of our customers, Go Daddy is rooted in the idea of First Amendment Rights and believes 100 percent that the Internet is a key engine for our new economy," said Adelman.

In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.

"Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future," Jones said.

It was a self-interested publicity stunt all along. But, nonetheless, a useful one for the rest of us.

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[beer]

12/23/2011:

I am proud to announce that the Wikipedia domain names will move away from GoDaddy. Their position on

#sopa

is unacceptable to us.

- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia CEO

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[myidisbb]

i read the article. go daddy still wants a versin of sopa. so screw them. they only way i see it would effect them is more sales of sites. but since any ban site is giong to get a non usa site afterwards to no.